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Statius tries to embrace Virgil, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Holkham misc. 48
Photo: Prof. Helen Tanzer (far right, black dress) teaches Roman Civilization at CUNY with the help of a model in a “toga” (ca. 1929)
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From Richard de Fournival, “Bestiare d’Amours,” BnF fr. 12148, 14th century manuscript (connected to Prof. Steel’s talk)
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2022 colloquia.
Karl Steel, Brooklyn College (English)
Joe Howley, Columbia (Classics)
Ali Noori, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania (Religion) *Brooklyn College Religion adjunct*/City College alumnus
Sam Baudinette, Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago (Philosophy)
Shona Adler, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania (English) Brooklyn College alumna
Contact Lauren Mancia or Karl Steel for the Zoom links/with questions. All students and faculty are welcome.
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia, 12th or 13th century
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2022 colloquia.
Students and faculty are welcome.
For more information, including Zoom links, contact Lauren Mancia.
Come share what you’re working on and float ideas in informal community. The LAMEM community, students, and faculty welcome.
Julia Paré, Ph.D. student, Department of Classics, Princeton and Brooklyn College alumna!
Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy Christina Van Dyke, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College
Sarah Celentano, Ph.D. in Art History, Brooklyn College Foundation
“Dionysus Cup” from 540-530 BCE, Exekias, from Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2021 colloquia.
Note: Zoom links will be available a week before the LAMEM event.
Professor Lauren Mancia (History) Professor Andrew Meyer (History) Professor Jenn Ball (Art) Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy) Professor Brian Sowers (Classics) Professor Karl Steel (English)
Professor Philip Thibodeau (Classics)
Professor Lisa Lowe (Yale, American Studies) Professor Lynda Day (Africana Studies) Professor Jason Frydman (English) Professor Liv Yarrow (Classics) Professor Hyunhee Park (History, John Jay)
Professor Chris Ebert (History) Professor Thiago Krause (History, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Alex Myers (historical fiction writer and transgender advocate)
Professor David Brodsky (Judaic Studies)
For more information, including Zoom links, contact Professor Lauren Mancia.
A printed edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron (1492).
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2021 colloquia.
Professor Marty Elsky (English)
Prof. David Brodsky (Judaic Studies) and Friends Prof. Nicola Masciandaro (English)
Sara McDougall (John Jay/GC/History) Janine Peterson (Marist/History) Andrew Romig (NYU/History)
Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy) Professor Karl Steel (English)
Professor Christina Van Dyke (Philosophy/Calvin College) Professor Lauren Mancia (History)
From Joseph ben Gorion’s The Most Wonderful and Deplorable History of the Latter Times of the Jews (1662)
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2020 colloquia.
Andrew Arlig, Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College
Cord Whitaker, Department of English, Wellesley College
Brian Sowers, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College
Vanita Neelakanta, Department of English, Rider University
Jay Diehl, Department of History, Long Island University
The formal enclosure of an anchoress in her cell by a bishop from a 15th century pontifical
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the spring 2020 colloquia.
Laurence Bond, ’17, Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University
Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Jillian Stinchcomb, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania
For more information, e-mail Professor Lauren Mancia.
Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents the fall 2019 colloquia.
Andrew Meyer, Department of History, Brooklyn College
Katherine Hsu and Brian Sowers, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College
Stephen Spencer, Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center
Martin Elsky, Department of English, Brooklyn College
For more information, e-mail Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia.
Egyptian mourning the death of his cattle. From the Golden Haggadah, Spain (Barcelona?) c. 1320. London, BL Additional MS 27210 fol. 12v, detail
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2019 colloquia.
Maria Conelli, Department of Art and Dean of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
Marc Epstein, Vassar College
Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study
Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
E-mail Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia.
Detail from: Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, The Descent from the Cross, oil on panel, about 1500 (detail of the Virgin), Musée du Louvre, accession no. INV 1445.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2018 colloquia.
A psychologist and an historian discuss Steven Pinker on human nature and emotion.
5–6:30 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
12:30–2 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Medieval law students in a late medieval manuscript (Coimbra, Biblioteca da Universidade 722, fol. 2r)
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2018 colloquia.
All are welcome.
5 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
12:30 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
5:30 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2017 colloquia.
Rubbings from a 15th-17th–century stele from Kaifeng.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2017 colloquia.
Ancient cave graffito, photograph courtesy of Prof. Karen Stern
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2016 colloquia.
5:30 p.m. Woody Tanger Auditorium (Library)
Islamic armillary sphere from a 16th-century Ottoman manuscript.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2016 colloquia.
12:30 p.m. Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library
6 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
A 14th-century image of a medieval oyster from The Hague, KA 16.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2015 colloquia.
A 14th-century image of Geometry teaching her students, from British Library ms. Burney 275 f. 293r.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2015 colloquia.
5:15 p.m. Costas Library (2405 Boylan Hall)
Come help LAMEM-affiliated faculty discuss why a historical consciousness of the culture, ideas, and events of the period before modernity is urgent for our understanding of the now at this lunchtime roundtable discussion during the Annual Faculty Day Conference.
12:45–2:15 p.m.
An early modern copy of Erasmus’ Moriae Encomium, illustrated by Hans Holbein.
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their fall 2014 colloquia.
14th-century image Henricus de Alemannia with his students (by Laurentius de Voltolina).
The Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group at Brooklyn College presents their spring 2014 colloquia.